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Slashdot: 'Switch Pro' Reportedly Cancelled As Nintendo Shifts Focus To Next-Gen Console

'Switch Pro' Reportedly Cancelled As Nintendo Shifts Focus To Next-Gen Console
Published on December 29, 2022 at 01:00AM
An anonymous reader shares a report: Rumours of a Nintendo Switch Pro console have been swirling in the video game industry and the gaming community for years. However, it seems that Nintendo is ready to move on from the portable console. According to Digital Foundry's John Linneman, many developers acknowledged that a "mid-generation Switch update" was initially planned, but Nintendo opted to focus instead on building a new console. Nintendo has yet to officially announce its next video game system, and Linneman said he does not expect it will be released until 2023. "So I think at one point internally from what I can understand from talking to different developers, is that there was some sort of mid-generation Switch update planned at one point and that seems to be no longer happening," said Linneman in the Digital Foundry podcast.

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